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Saturday, June 11, 2016

FINALS: The NBA Finals got one of the series' biggest finals adjustments, up to a 6.0. That's still a series low (and 21% behind last year's fourth game), but just a tenth behind Wednesday's number on a lower-viewed night.

The NBA Finals made its first stop on a Friday night since 2003. While it was the most competitive game of the series to date, the low-viewed nature of the night held it down to 4.1/5.2 prelim hours that should adjust into the mid-to-high-5's after finals. And the game result means the series will be heavily favored to end on Monday. I'm guessing it squeaks past last year's Bruce Jenner: The Interview (5.2) as the highest A18-49 rating for a Friday program since the 2014 Winter Olympics opening ceremony. (But this record would only hold for a couple months, with the Summer Olympics opening ceremony coming soon.)

There was another sporting option on this Friday, as Fox gave its Copa America soccer tournament (0.5/0.4/0.5) a look on the broadcast network. It looks like this will be the only Fox primetime exposure in the entire tournament, as most of the English language telecasts will take place on Fox Sports 1 (with a handful on FX and Fox Sports 2).

NBC was best of the rest with an America's Got Talent repeat (0.9) and Dateline (1.0), while CBS had drama repeats (0.5/0.5/0.6) and CW had magic shows (0.4/0.4/0.3).

FULL TABLE:

Name

A18-49

Skew

Last

Lastn

LeLa

wy2y

TLa

Ty2y

True

Last

Jimmy Kimmel Live: Game Night

1.0

32%

-9%

-0.1

-29%

+43%

+25%

1.55

+0.11

NBA Countdown

1.5

38%

0%

0.0

-0.1

-32%

+114%

+87%

2.09

+0.24

NBA Finals

6.0

46%

-2%

-0.1

0.0

-21%

+567%

+380%

7.23

+0.27

ABC:

+430%

+302%

NCIS: Los Angeles (R)

0.5

14%

-17%

0%

1.02

Hawaii Five-0 (R)

0.5

13%

-38%

-17%

1.11

Blue Bloods (R)

0.6

14%

-14%

-14%

1.28

CBS:

-24%

-11%

America's Got Talent (R)

0.8

23%

-11%

-33%

1.30

Dateline Fri (S)

1.0

23%

-9%

-0.1

-0.1

-9%

-17%

1.60

+0.09

NBC:

-10%

-28%

Copa America

0.4

56%

-11%

-20%

1.01

Fox:

-11%

-20%

Masters of Illusion

0.3

37%

+50%

+0.1

+50%

-40%

0.47

+0.14

Masters of Illusion (R)

0.3

37%

+50%

-25%

0.50

Penn and Teller: Fool Us (R)

0.3

35%

0%

+50%

0.50

CW:

+20%

-8%

All:

+104%

+75%

The full table can be sorted by clicking any of the category names at the top. Hover over 'Last', 'y2y' and timeslot numbers for more information on the previous episode(s) being compared.